Nyeka Arnold, a sixth generation Austinite, has been a leader in her community through her nonprofit work and efforts to help the homeless during Winter Storm Uri. Despite her family's long history in Austin, none have attended the University of Texas.
Nyeka Arnold is a sixth generation Austin ite. Before they came to Austin , her family was enslaved just a few miles east of the city, in the cotton farming town of Webberville. It was her great-great-great grandfather, Rev. John Henry Winn, who founded St. John Freedom Colony in Austin in the early 1870s. Community leadership seems to run in the family – in 2021, still without a college degree, Arnold co-founded the nonprofit Healing Project.
That same year during Winter Storm Uri, she drove down Austin’s frozen roads in a white van, personally picking up more than 200 homeless Austinites and bringing them to warming shelters. Though Arnold’s family have been leaders in Austin longer than the University of Texas has existed, none have attended. For most of the university’s history it would’ve been impossible. UTArnold herself was 12 or 13 before she ever stepped foot on campus. It was a field trip to visit the Longhorns women's basketball team., and she was a Black woman,” she sai
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